The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-10-20
MISSING LINKS.
The Audubon society has three thou
and members in America.

The leases of eight of the London
theaters are now held by women.
A Jewish synagogue will shortly be
erected at San Diego, Cal, at cost OF
$4,000.
Ensenada, Lower California, now
has brewery, and is going to have
university.
In the Carabaya valley in Bolivia
an immense number of rubber trees
have been recently discovered.
There are twenty-five real-estate
brokers in Visalia, Cal, a town of not
more than one thousand inhabitants.
At Charlottetown, p E. l., there are
six brothers whose ages average over
II years, all of whom are hale and
hearty.
Samples of coffee cost firm of New
York coffee merchants about 5000 a
year, but they are resold at profit of
nearly $1,000.
American libraries are open an
average of over eleven hours day,
while foreign libraries seldom average
more than six hours.
j. r. G. Pitkin, hitherto most known
as a politician, has been winning high
praise in Boston with his lecture on
The Fools of Shakespeare"
Women are at present given to
poetry in praise of babies. 1t is mostly
serious, too, and is therefore not a
very encouraging sign for the babes.
Colonial windows may be made by
filing the frame OF an old spinning
wheel with cathedral glass. The
window frame follows the outlines of
the wheel.
Farmers residing on the lower
Sacramento report that the scale-bug,
So numerous and destructive during
the past two or three years, has almost
disappeared.
French toy manufacturers are COM
planning of the crushing rivalry of the
Germans, who are charged with max
ing false custom house entries to
secure low duties, and with initiating
French goods.
SO much trouble is experienced by
Boston business men in handling tele-
phones and with district messengers
that they are talking of going back to
old and sure methods of transacting
their business.
The amount of bacon used in the
American navy foots up over one
million pounds per year. How the
fifteen or twenty men manage to get
away with so much is none of the bust
ness of foreign nations.
Isabella Flipper, mother of the
famous colored West Point cadet, died
recently at Thomasville, Ga. She pos
sessed many fine traits of character
and enjoyed the respect and good
opinion of all who knew her.
William l.. Miller, of Charleston, S.
c., has two immense iron shells, said
to be the first two shots fired at Battery
Wagner at the beginning of che war.
The shells were never exploded; they
weigh two hundred pounds each.
The Pan Yam mine near Helena, M.
r, is one of the richest of recent
strikes in the territory. 1t was dis
covered by John Waulshagan, la
horer. During the last two weeks in
August $12 900 worth of ore was taken
out of the mine.
n H. Wilson, of MERGED, Cal, has
just received some Egyptian wheat
5000 years old, which was found in
the coffin Of an Egyptian prince while
unrolling the mummy. Prof. Gilden,
of Boston, brought the wheat to the
United States in 1880.
The killing of squirrels, prairie
tom
and coyotes is quite an expensive item
in the yearly budget of Montana.
From Jan. l to August, 1887, that
territory paid in bounties for the kill
ing of the same 500, 025.1O.
An English statesman asserts that
not only do married men live longer
than bachelors, but that the latter are
more criminal. He says that there
are thirty criminals among every thou
sand bachelors, while among married
men the ratio is only eighteen.
An unique fashion note gives the
important information that red hair
with blue eyes must be differently
managed from red hair with gray or
brown eyes. As soon as blue is intro
duced into the dress the blue eyes
count for twice their value, and form
too strong contrast with red hair.
The claim of being the oldest living
twins in New England is contested by
Mrs. Hepsibah Everett and Mrs Sally
Cole, of Dedham, Mass, who were 90
years old the 2Sth of last May. They
have another sister, Mrs. Nabby
Smith, of Dedharl, who is 90, and a
brother few Years younger than Mrs.
Smith.
Prof. Trautvetter, of Peoria, con-
ductor of music, has an interesting
relic of the ChatSworth horror. 1t is
the baton which he uses in his bust
ness, and is of solid mahogany, about
two feet in length and highly polished.
1t Is supposed to be portion of Mr.
Fred Welnnette's cane, and is gold
tipped and appropriately engraved.
Several years ago the Medical asso-
citation of Boston presented the Uni
versity of Toxic, Japan, with a num-
Der of its duplicate volumes. The
gift was acknowledged at the time,
and again lately by the presentation
OF a collection of 210 japanese medi-
cal works. The books are in Chinese
characters, the japanese having no
printed alphabet.
A farmer at Chelsea, Vt, has had
novel and unpleasant experience.
Four months ago his hair and whiskers
began TO come out, and in month MS
head was as bald as babes. His eye
brows and eyelashes also came off,
and there seems little prospects of
new growth. Eight years ago, how
ever, his hair came off in the same
way, but his whiskers and eyebrows
and eyelashes remained
Ontonagon Mich, has a baseball
dog. He can Judge sky-scraper as
accurately as any professional, and is
a much surer catch, while liners and
daisy-cutters are simply his veal. He
has been known to jump five and
half feet to nail hot one, and his
pickups are the admiration of the town.
Had he eight equally proficient COM
paniOns and were they able to bat it